by domara | Jun 18, 2014 | Boston Red Sox, Brock Holt, Dustin Pedroia, Grady Sizemore, Jackie Bradley, Jon Lester, Minnesota Twins, Xander Bogearts
The Red Sox and Twins played the second game of a three game series at Fenway Park on Tuesday night. Similar to Monday’s contest, runs were held to a minimum as staff aces Jon Lester and Phil Hughes toed the rubber for their respective clubs. However, Boston was...
by domara | Jun 17, 2014 | A.J. Pierzynski, Boston Red Sox, Brock Holt, Burke Badenhop, Grady Sizemore, Kevin Correia, koji uehara, Minnesota Twins, Rubby de la Rosa, Shane Victorino
Runs were hard to come by in the Red Sox and Twins series opener on Monday night. While the pitching match-up of Rubby De La Rosa and Kevin Correia doesn’t sound like your prototypical pitchers duel, both starters battled like a couple of aces. In his third...
by domara | May 13, 2014 | Adrian Beltre, Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Rizzo, Boston Red Sox, Henry Owens, Jon Lester, Minnesota Twins, Ricky Nolasco, Shane Victorino, Will Middlebrooks
After wrapping up a series win in Texas on Sunday, the Red Sox enjoyed their third day off in the last 10 days. On the final leg of their road trip, the Red Sox head to Minnesota to face the Twins for a 3 games series. Boston will send Felix Doubront to the mound on...
by jcookson | Mar 7, 2014 | Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Jose Fernandez, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays
This column came from a Tweet from fellow Fire Brand columnist Timothy Brooks: Pawtucket’s potential rotation of Webster, Workman, De La Rosa, Barnes, and Ranaudo is better than some major league rotations. #redsox — Timothy Brooks (@pastortimbrooks) February...
by akhatchaturian | Jan 11, 2014 | A.J. Pierzynski, Boston Red Sox, Daniel Nava, Detroit Tigers, Dustin Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury, Minnesota Twins, Shane Victorino
After some extensive research in April 2013, I found that one of the reasons why pitchers are starting to dominate baseball is because first pitch strikes are up and first pitch swing rate are down league wide. These graphs from fangraphs.com showed how first pitch...
by bcarsley | Nov 4, 2013 | Atlanta Braves, Bartolo Colon, Boston Red Sox, Bronson Arroyo, Bruce Chen, Carlos Pena, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies, Daisuke Matsuzaka, David Murphy, Erik Bedard, Houston Astros, James Loney, Kelly Shoppach, Kevin Youkilis, Los Angeles Angels, Lyle Overbay, Mark Kotsay, Marlon Byrd, Miami Marlins, Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Nick Punto, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays
The 2014 offseason is officially underway. The Red Sox don’t figure to be the big players in free agency this year that they were before the 2013 season, but depending on which players leave and which players stay, there will still be a few holes to fill. You’ll see...
by jkeller | Jul 11, 2013 | Andrew Bailey, Boston Red Sox, Brandon Gomes, Cleveland Indians, David Ortiz, Felix Doubront, Fenway Park, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jonny Gomes, Mike Napoli, Minnesota Twins, San Diego Padres, Shane Victorino, Stephen Drew, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays
There is nothing better than a walk-off Red Sox win. It doesn’t matter how many we have in a season, they never get old. There is the initial moment of doubt. Does it have enough to get out of here? Is it going to stay fair? Will the ball get through the drawn...
by bcarsley | Jul 1, 2013 | Allen Webster, Boston Red Sox, Chris Balcom-Miller, Christian Vazquez, Garin Cecchini, Jon Lester, Michael Almanzar, Miguel Sano, Minnesota Twins, Portland Sea Dogs, Travis Shaw, Will Middlebrooks, Xander Bogaerts
When you write about baseball on the Interwebs a half-dozen times every week, sometimes you run out of ideas. When I first sat down to write this column on Saturday, I began waxing poetic about Will Middlebrooks and the flaws that we somewhat willfully overlooked. We...
by scandage | May 20, 2013 | Adam Dunn, Addison Reed, Alejandro De Aza, Alex Rios, Alex Wilson, Alexei Ramirez, Angel Sanchez, Boston Red Sox, Casper Wells, Chicago White Sox, Chris Sale, Clay Buchholz, Clayton Mortensen, Conor Gillaspie, Craig Breslow, Daniel Nava, Dayan Viciedo, DeWayne Wise, Dustin Pedroia, Dylan Axelrod, Felix Doubront, Gavin Floyd, Gordon Beckham, Hector Gimenez, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jeff Keppinger, Jesse Crain, John Danks, Jon Lester, Jonny Gomes, Jose De La Torre, Jose Quintana, Koji Uehara, Leyson Septimo, Matt Lindstrom, Matt Thornton, Mike Carp, Minnesota Twins, Nate Jones, Paul Konerko, Pedro Ciriaco, Ryan Lavarnway, Stephen Drew, Tyler Flowers, Tyler Greene
Having swept the Twins, the Boston Red Sox (27-17, second place, 0.5 games behind in the AL East) go to the South Side to take on the Chicago White Sox (19-23, tied for fourth place, 6 games behind in the AL Central) for a three-game series. The Red Sox are 6-4 in...
by bcowett | May 20, 2013 | 2013 Boston Red Sox, Andrew Bailey, Bobby Valentine, Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, Felix Doubront, Jacoby Ellsbury, Joe Mauer, John Farrell, John Lackey, Minnesota Twins, Shane Victorino
Not even a shower & the shampoo promoter himself could stop the sweep from happening this weekend. The road warriors roll into Chicago next. Here’s the story of the Red Sox and the Rain Delay: There was once a game where the Sox played well. Then a storm...
